by Mike Parnell | Jul 10, 2008 | Opinion
A friend in ministry once remarked that when you are discouraged, you have to do the last thing God told you to do. You keep doing that thing until someone comes and tells you differently. WALL-E does this. He’s the last robot left on Earth in the year 2700....
by Mike Parnell | Jun 19, 2008 | Opinion
Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) is a genius on the run. Where does a genius on the run hide? In a soft drink bottling plant in Brazil, of course, and it’s there that “The Incredible Hulk” opens. This movie is aided by the fact that Marvel is now making...
by Mike Parnell | Jun 13, 2008 | Opinion
Poor Po the Panda. He dreams of glory as he works in his father’s noodle shop. The glory Po seeks is that of a great kung fu master, but he (Jack Black) is clumsy and unfocused. When it’s time, however, to name the esteemed “dragon warrior” of...
by Mike Parnell | May 30, 2008 | Opinion
Indy aged, and so did the world. In the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, Indy (Harrison Ford) is embroiled in the controversy of the day, Soviet Communism. It’s 1957, and Indy is prisoner of a Soviet paranormal researcher named Irina Spalko...
by Mike Parnell | May 20, 2008 | Opinion
A sign on the wall says it all: “Immigrants, America’s strength.” Of course, it’s located inside a detention center where illegal immigrants are held in Thomas McCarthy’s new movie, “The Visitor.” “The Visitor”...
